Moulin Rouge
2001
Cross LA BOHEME with CABARET, throw in a little bit of RENT, and you might almost begin to describe Baz Luhrmann's visually opulent, fast-paced, funny, heartrending MOULIN ROUGE. The film, which premiered as the opener to the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, is a musical set in 1899 Paris at the notorious Montmartre cabaret club, the .. Read more
| Starring | Ewan McGregor, Nicole Kidman, Jim Broadbent, John Leguizamo |
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| Director | Baz Luhrmann |
| Run time | 122 mins |
| Genres | Audio Descriptive, Music/Musical |
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Hyperkinetic, attention-seeking pop variation on La Bohème and La Traviata that is so over the top it parodies itself; its modern songs cannot carry the weight of emotion piled upon them, though it might have helped to have had a few singers in the cast.
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"...Baz Luhrmann displays often amazing resourcefulness as he mixes a multitude of film and song styles to relate his quintessential tale of la vie boheme..."
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43 out of 58 people found this review helpful
TRUTHFULLY - THE WORST FILM I EVER ONLY SAW 15 MINUTES OF
Boring trash. Nothing more to say, I believed the hype about this film and could stand no more than 15 minutes before switching off in disgust...this was 3 years ago and to this day, it remains the worst film I have ever seen bar none.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Arghhhhh!
Shocking, awful, ridiculous!!!!
Heaven help the next victim forced to sit through this drivel.
Oh, and at the risk of upsetting every Ewan McGreggor fan in the world-- HE DOESN'T SING, HE SHOUTS-- badly!!!!
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